New All Black Hookers
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Both Taylor and Coles are absolute shit now.
Who are the two to come into the AB squad?
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@Tim ummmm. Eklund? McAlister? Bring back Asafa?
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@BartMan Really seems like there are no obvious choices!
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All the young hookers have some throwing issues too but they can't keep Coles AND Taylor.
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Aumua.
Best at everything except throwing.
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@Tim yup she's wide open for next season. Taylor needs to sort off field shit by all accounts. If he can come back into old form I'd back him back in black.
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Aumua struggled a bit during SR but is worth another look. He’s looked in better form during the NPC
Eklund apart from one game has played well. At least he’d improve our breakdown work.
Both flawed but still better than Taylor
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Coles can throw fine, so he's on the bench. Keep Sami on until he calls out. That's what Smith used to do. He would play until he realised he was blowing, then call to be replaced. Sami can do the same. Give trust to our awesome players. Better than faith in our old shits
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Of the young hookers playing, Thompson and Vikena look good. Haven't seen enough of Bell.
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@BartMan George Bell is going to stake a claim hopefully
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@Machpants I like that combo, on the proviso that Coles doesn't arrive with the red mist triggered. When he's a short step from the edge of raging he is excellent. I just can't see what Codie is offering at the moment and we need physicality like Foster needs a W... hmm wonder if there is anything connecting those things...
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@Tim said in New All Black Hookers:
Of the young hookers playing, Thompson and Vikena look good. Haven't seen enough of Bell.
And none of those will be starters for their SR teams. Bell will be behind McAlister too, so getting enough minutes on the field could be an issue.
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Well Coles and Taylor are not cutting it so we need change. They should not be there next year. Why persist? What do you think Rennie would do? Don't think he would hesitate to replace them?
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How's Bradley Slater going?
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@BartMan said in New All Black Hookers:
@Tim yup she's wide open for next season. Taylor needs to sort off field shit by all accounts.
I thought something must be up. Do tell.
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@Tim said in New All Black Hookers:
Of the young hookers playing, Thompson and Vikena look good. Haven't seen enough of Bell.
Vikena for me should be looked at (and no, not because he's a Blues player). I'd look at trying to blood him in at some stage. He's like another version of Taukeiaho. Not as good at this stage obviously, but a kid with huge promise.
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@sparky said in New All Black Hookers:
How's Bradley Slater going?
Not a silly question. He seemed much improved in Super. Still a couple more steps to take and probably appears more average than he is due to the contrast with Sami. Has a good work rate and core duties are getting much better.
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@African-Monkey said in New All Black Hookers:
@Tim said in New All Black Hookers:
Of the young hookers playing, Thompson and Vikena look good. Haven't seen enough of Bell.
Vikena for me should be looked at (and no, not because he's a Blues player). I'd look at trying to blood him in at some stage. He's like another version of Taukeiaho. Not as good at this stage obviously, but a kid with huge promise.
Jeez i thought vikena looked bloody hopeless the few times I saw him over super season! That's the braided hair guy?
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rhy marshall been impressive for waikato
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@Duluth said in New All Black Hookers:
Aumua struggled a bit during SR but is worth another look. He’s looked in better form during the NPC
Eklund apart from one game has played well. At least he’d improve our breakdown work.
Both flawed but still better than Taylor
He had a few injury issues this year, hence the fact the Canes used about 8 hookers.
Aumua has been Wellington’s best to start the NPC so hopefully that continues.
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We are scraping the bottom of the barrel with some of the names being suggested.
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@Crazy-Horse we have lost 4 out of our 6 tests this year, 3 of them at home...we are at the bottom of the barrel already.
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@taniwharugby said in New All Black Hookers:
@Crazy-Horse we have lost 4 out of our 6 tests this year, 3 of them at home...we are at the bottom of the barrel already.
Say bye bye to bled and Eden park record, that's the bottom. And is on the cards
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@Machpants well sadly many pointed out losing to the Argies, possibly losing the Bledisloe and then at least a couple on EOYT this year as being on the cards too...
we are in for ALOT of hurt in the next few months.
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@taniwharugby said in New All Black Hookers:
@Crazy-Horse we have lost 4 out of our 6 tests this year, 3 of them at home...we are at the bottom of the barrel already.
Mr. Foster's record this season must be asterixed as he has not had the benefit of three 100 point warm ups against any Pacific Island Nations this year so his record could easily read five from nine and hey presto that a winning percentage. Having said that what would previously have been 100 pointers are now probably reduced to 50 pointers given his performance levels.
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@Crazy-Horse said in New All Black Hookers:
We are scraping the bottom of the barrel with some of the names being suggested.
True, but that also backs up the 'cattle' part of the argument in our poor results.
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@Higgins said in New All Black Hookers:
@taniwharugby said in New All Black Hookers:
@Crazy-Horse we have lost 4 out of our 6 tests this year, 3 of them at home...we are at the bottom of the barrel already.
Mr. Foster's record this season must be asterixed as he has not had the benefit of three 100 point warm ups against any Pacific Island Nations this year so his record could easily read five from nine and hey presto that a winning percentage. Having said that what would previously have been 100 pointers are now probably reduced to 50 pointers given his performance levels.
was it last year there was hype about 'most points in a calendar year', conveniently ignoring the multiple tier 2 and 3 teams we played to run up cricket scores.
And who could forget Tonga rolling over our forwards for a maul try ... a harbinger of things to come.
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I can see George Bell being fast tracked sooner rather than later.
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@nzzp said in New All Black Hookers:
@Higgins said in New All Black Hookers:
@taniwharugby said in New All Black Hookers:
@Crazy-Horse we have lost 4 out of our 6 tests this year, 3 of them at home...we are at the bottom of the barrel already.
Mr. Foster's record this season must be asterixed as he has not had the benefit of three 100 point warm ups against any Pacific Island Nations this year so his record could easily read five from nine and hey presto that a winning percentage. Having said that what would previously have been 100 pointers are now probably reduced to 50 pointers given his performance levels.
was it last year there was hype about 'most points in a calendar year', conveniently ignoring the multiple tier 2 and 3 teams we played to run up cricket scores.
And who could forget Tonga rolling over our forwards for a maul try ... a harbinger of things to come.
Fiji dominating us at the breakdown
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Bell looks like the best prospect coming through.
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@KiwiMurph said in New All Black Hookers:
I can see George Bell being fast tracked sooner rather than later.
He scored a hatrick v Australia Under 20s only recently, he is a very strong young man. He scored an amazing last minute try v Western Force this year. He is also playing really well for Canterbury at NPC level.
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@SBW1 said in New All Black Hookers:
@KiwiMurph said in New All Black Hookers:
I can see George Bell being fast tracked sooner rather than later.
He scored a hatrick v Australia Under 20s only recently, he is a very strong young man. He scored an amazing last minute try v Western Force this year. He is also playing really well for Canterbury at NPC level.
Bell is a real talent he reminds me of a Young Dane Coles.
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@Chris He reminds me a lot more of Fitzy.
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He needs to start at SR level though. If Robertson keeps picking Taylor it’ll be hard to make it based off cameos
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@KiwiMurph said in New All Black Hookers:
@Chris He reminds me a lot more of Fitzy.
Does he,Coles comes to mind for me but I see the Fitzy comparison too.
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@Duluth said in New All Black Hookers:
He needs to start at SR level though. If Robertson keeps picking Taylor it’ll be hard to make it based off cameos
At least Jason Ryan will be very familiar with him.
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@Duluth said in New All Black Hookers:
He needs to start at SR level though. If Robertson keeps picking Taylor it’ll be hard to make it based off cameos
I think that might start happening next year, Bell starting.
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I'll pass on this guy;
What an idiotic tackle attempt.
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@Kirwan yep, was real dumb and dirty. On top of it being absolute dirt he left a man unmarked on the outside to do it.
Easy to see why he's struggled to make the step up if that's his attitude.
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@Duluth although there are other examples of players making the ABs from the bench of thier Super team
